Delivery-Focused Enterprise Architect for Finance

DigX; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DigX is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our team on a major financial-services engagement. The initial focus is understanding the client’s current landscape, identifying dependencies and constraints, and defining the architecture and roadmap to move forward.

This role isn’t just discovery or strategy; you’ll stay close to delivery through initial assessment, solution shaping and ongoing delivery, ensuring architectural decisions translate into practical outcomes alongside

Qualifications

• Strong Enterprise Architecture experience within complex transformation or technology programmes.
• Experience taking work from early discovery and definition through into delivery.
• Ability to understand and connect business processes, technology, data, integrations and operating models.
• Strong knowledge of data ownership, lineage, APIs, workflows and enterprise integration.
• Experience developing current-state, target-state and transition architectures.
• Ability to develop and assess different architectural options and clearly explain the associated trade-offs.
• Confidence working with incomplete, inconsistent or evolving information.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior and executive stakeholders.
• A pragmatic approach to architecture, balancing strategic direction with real-world delivery constraints.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural direction throughout delivery.
• Ensure solutions remain aligned to the agreed architecture and wider business objectives.
• Resolve architectural questions and challenges as they emerge.
• Maintain visibility of dependencies across systems, teams, data and third parties.
• Support delivery teams in making pragmatic decisions where constraints or priorities change.
• Maintain appropriate architecture documentation and decision records.
• Provide technical and architectural assurance throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Transformation programmes

Discovery to delivery

Business-IT alignment

Data ownership

Data lineage

APIs & integration

Current architectures

Target architectures

Transition architecture

Stakeholder management

Architectural direction

Communication skills

Job description

DigX is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our team on a major financial-services engagement. The initial focus is understanding the client’s current landscape, identifying dependencies and constraints, and defining the architecture and roadmap to move forward.

This role isn’t just discovery or strategy; you’ll stay close to delivery through initial assessment, solution shaping and ongoing delivery, ensuring architectural decisions translate into practical outcomes alongside